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I always try to remember this

Lady Gaga’s former classmate reveals how Lady Gaga overcame bullying and it’s beyond inspiring

There was a time when Lady Gaga wasn’t famous. In fact, during her time at New York University, the now cool, confident, adverse-to-haters, take-no-shit Lady Gaga was bullied. 

Lauren Bohn, a former NYU classmate of hers, revealed in a Facebook post this Sunday that Leonardo DiCaprio’s unintentional shade thrown at the pop star (see GIF below) reminded her of the days when Gaga was just Stefani Germanotta and people weren’t bursting into tears upon meeting her:

“When I was a freshman at NYU and Facebook was only a year old and people created/joined groups like ‘I have dimples, f*** me’ and ‘Fake ID, please!,’ I remember coming across a Facebook group that broke my heart. It’s name: “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous.’ she wrote.”The page housed pictures of a pretty Norah Jones-esque young 18-year-old NYU student who sang and played piano at local bars. The group was peppered with comments, sharp as porcupine needles, vilifying the aspiring musician for being an ‘attention-whore.’ Scores asked: ‘Who does she think she is?’

 I also remember one dude posting a flyer for one of her upcoming gigs at a local village bar. He had clearly stomped on the flyer, an outline of his muddy sole [soul] struggling to eclipse her name.I couldn’t shake the raw feeling of filth while scrolling down that Facebook page, but I pretty much – and quickly – forgot about that group and that girl with the intense raven eyes.

Until about five years later. I was on an Amtrak train from NYC to Philly, reading a Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Magazine profile on Lady Gaga. I floated somewhat mindlessly through the piece until I got to the first sentence of the second graf:

“Before the meeting, I assumed that someone with a stage name like “Lady” (her given name is Stefani Joanne Germanotta) was going to be a bit standoffish…”

HOLY SHIT, I screamed to an empty car (Those who hang with me will know that I actually shrieked). LADY GAGA IS STEFANI GERMANOTTA? STEFANI IS LADY GAGA?

I was overcome with a dizzying emotional cocktail of stage-mom-at-a-beauty-pageant and nerd-revenge triumph. But also shame. Shame that I never wrote on that group, shame that I never defended the girl with the intense raven eyes – the girl whose brave flyers were stomped on, probably somewhere near my dorm.

But again, I soon forgot about that revelation and that feeling. Feelings. They’re so fleeting. Even more so, revelations. We need to constantly re-discover them every damn day.

Like last week, when I woke up to this meme. 

I saw the muddy sole eclipsing her name. The eye-rolls. The cowardly virtual-giggles. The “Who does she think she is?”

I’ve got a lot of feelings, but the easiest one to articulate: gratitude.

Stefani, thank you. Thank you for always thinking you’re a superstar, for using your cracks to let the light come out more brightly. Humans, let’s follow suit. ‪#‎LadyGaga‬ ‪#‎ThatsWho‬”

And if you’re wondering what that awesome NYU student performed like back then, here you go:

LADY GAGA, THAT’S WHO.

— Mandy Velez

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what did they do to tumblr now?

I swear im gone for two minutes and they remodel the place

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"your teens are about" "your 20s are about" there's no schedule babes

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Junji Ito  //  Hayao Miyazaki

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i just wanna watch wallace and grommet and eat cheeese

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guys its not 3 Liters all at once, its throughout the day

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i love tumblr ,

i really do, i went on this hell site looking for a fandom for a book i was reading and 5 years later I'm doing the same thing :)

i know its shit, but when I really need cheering up, this son of a bitch manages to accomplish that task

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I've had enough of society being catered to morning people.. it's time for everything to be pushed back like two hours

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FUNGI HAVE CLOSER DNA TO HUMANS THAN TO PLANTS AND MUSHROOMS ARE ACTUALLY THE FRUITING BODIES OF MASSIVE SUBTERRANEAN SYSTEMS OF FUNGI THAT ARE THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD AND MILES WIDE. THE LARGEST LIVING ORGANISM ON OUR PLANET IS A 3.5 MILE LONG 10,000 YEAR OLD FUNGI WHICH CONNECTS THE WHOLE FOREST AND HELPS EVERY PLANT COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER.

THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO AN ALMIGHTY IS FUNGI.

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BI PANIC - i have a crush on my 33-year-old prof and my super-tall-short-red-hair-dcmartens-wearing-female-classmate !!!!

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So, there's apparently research coming out now about microplastics being found in people's bloodstreams and the possible negative effects of that and I feel the need to get out ahead of the wave of corporate sponsored "be sure to recycle your bottles!" or "ban glitter!" campaigns and remind everyone: It's fishing nets. It's fishing nets. It is overwhelming fishing nets It always has been fishing nets. Unless regulations are changed, it will continue to be fishing nets. The plastic in the ocean in largely discarded nets from industrial fishing. The microplastics are the result of these nets breaking down. The "trash islands" are also, you guessed it. Mostly fishing nets and other discarded fishing industry equipment. Do not allow them to continue to twist the story. Do not come after disabled people who require single use plastics. Do not come after people using glitter in art projects and makeup. These things make up a negligible amount of the issue compared to corporate waste, specifically in the fishing industry. Do not let them shift the blame to the individual so they can continue to destroy the planet and our bodies without regulation.

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you guys have the attention span of a grape. Aint no way y'all read Dracula

#dracula

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Vincent Giarrano on Instagram

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I love what I’m doing and… yeah, so… here we go again! 🤍

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